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From: "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <>
Subject: [COLAPLAT] Fw: Burnham Query
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:58:31 -0700


Can some one help on this query? Please reply to sender.

Gail
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:05 PM
Subject: Burnham Query


> Dear Gail, La Plata CO queries
> My late mother Lillian Burnham b 1892 Fruitland, NM, told me her
cousin
> young Abinidi "Ben" Burnham was killed in mining strike violence at
Telluride
> in 1901. Another record, however, says his death occured at or near
Durango,
> La Plata County. A reliable correspondent saw these graves some years ago
but
> is uncertain now of the exact cemetery location among several similar. I
am
> told the burial is in a small cemetery on private land in or near Mancos,
> Montezuma County. His grave I am told is next to his father George
Franklin
> Burnham, a Mormon pioneer, who died also in 1901 shortly after his son,
in a
> logging accident near Mancos.
> If anyone can provide any additional historical detail on the mining
> strike mentioned, or additional dates, locations relating to these events
and
> deaths, such would be most gratefully received. I hope to visit this
> beautiful area again in the near future and this time try to locate these
> graves.
> Thank you
> Nyle Burnham Leatham
>
>

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